Category: Deep Water

  • Pacific Gulls as dive buddies.

    Pacific Gulls as dive buddies.

    Curious Seagulls join me as I watch Mullet feeding.

  • Grey Nurse Sharks

    Grey Nurse Sharks

    Grey Nurse Sharks of Fish Rock, South West Rocks, NSW, Australia music: incompetech.com ‘Man Down’ Kevin Macleod

  • Cow Fish at Cleaning station.

    Cow Fish at Cleaning station.

    Fish cleaning stations are well recorded in the Tropical Marine environments. Here shown is a sample of a cold water marine environment Cleaning station. The Fish doing the cleaning are called Mado’s. (Atypichthys striates) While the recipient are Ornate cowfish. (Aracana ornate) In this scenario to the surprise of the observer a Weedy Seadragon arrives.…

  • Weedy Sea Dragons fighting back.

    Weedy Sea Dragons fighting  back.

    Weedy Seadragons do not only rely on camouflage or passive resistance for defence. They can and do fight back, especially if protecting their eggs. New pink eggs on their tails are especially tempting to fish. After a few weeks the eggs get a protective covering of algae . Coming close to a Jetty provides some…

  • Garfish feeding

    Garfish  feeding

    A free dive found me swimming into a feeding school of Garfish.

  • Weedy Sea Dragons seen with problems around Flinders Jetty

    Weedy Sea Dragons seen with problems around Flinders Jetty

    This is a collection of scenarios seen under Flinders jetty . All scenes show Dragons with some ailments. Surprisingly they seem to cope for a long time before finally disappearing.

  • Seal rips legs of Crabs

    Seal rips legs of Crabs

    Its not unusual to find freshly moulted Spider crabs(soft shelled Crabs) with a few legs missing. Mostly you can only guess what causes this leg loss. In these scenarios shown here a Seal was the guilty party.

  • Spider Crab Photo scenarios.

    Spider Crab Photo scenarios.

    Melbournes Spider Crabs are becoming a popular Divers subject for Photography . Here I share some scenarios seen in 2018. Pang Quong

  • Mary and Leillateah

    Mary and Leillateah

    A short account of Mary and her relationship to the Leillateah. An insight into life on a ketch, and the importance that the ketches and schooners had in the then fledgling South Australia.

  • Octopus eats Crabs

    Octopus eats Crabs

    A Maori Octopus seemed to have selected its lair wisely. There was no need to leave home to hunt food. The smart Cephalopod had taken up residence right in the path of the annual migration of Spider crabs. . “To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com”

  • DANCING CRABS TANGO

    DANCING CRABS TANGO

    To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com These sexy spider crabs do dance of love for all the world to see.

  • One Spider Crab Moulting Its Shell Amidst a Million

    One Spider Crab Moulting Its Shell Amidst a Million

    Amidst a million spider crabs on the Mornington Peninsula of Melbourne Australia, one crab is found moulting from its old shell into its new one.